Drinking diet sodas and other artificially sweetened drinks doesn't seem to raise your cancer risk based on this study, but they didn't look at people who drank a lot of them.

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Sugary drink consumption and risk of cancer: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort

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2019 Jul 10

The study looked at artificially sweetened drinks and found they don't increase cancer risk, which matches the claim that there's no link.

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Sugary drink consumption and risk of cancer: results from NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort

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DOI: 10.1136/bmj.l2408

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